Block bad data, duplicates, and incorrect dates with these custom rules.

Here's a quick method, and the equivalent keyboard shortcut, for selecting an entire data range. Working with a complete data set is a common task in Excel. You might want to move the data, apply a ...

Microsoft Excel for analysts skills include Power Query to trim spaces and merge columns, so you automate cleaning steps and ...

To begin, you need to enable the Developer tab in Excel. This tab provides access to the tools required for form creation, but it is not enabled by default. To enable ...

If you've used Excel's Merge And Center tool for a long time (like I had), you could be forgiven for thinking there's no better alternative (like I did). Well, let me introduce you to Center Across ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

Microsoft Excel offers several tools you can use when you need to fill a column with the same text or numbers. Instead of completing each cell manually, you can quickly fill in the entire column using ...

Excel's Subtotal command allows you to quickly create subtotals in your sorted data, and then collapse the view to to show only the new subtotal rows. When you try to copy the subtotals by themselves, ...